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A startup can use the strategies covered in The Challenger Sale to grow by adopting the Challenger selling approach. This involves understanding the customer's business, offering unique insights, and pushing the customer's thinking, leading them to a different view of their business that aligns with the startup's solutions. The startup can also use Customer Outcome Cards, a tool that helps understand what each stakeholder cares about, their decision criteria, metrics, key concerns, and potential value areas. This allows the startup to tailor their approach to each stakeholder's goals, effectively communicating the value of their solution in the stakeholder's language.
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Solae, a manufacturer of soy-based food ingredients aimed to sell complex solutions to expand beyond its traditional applications. This dramatically increased the number of stakeholders involved making life difficult for reps. To address this, Solae documented what each stakeholder cared about in the form of Customer Outcomes Cards. These contained demographic information, high level decision criteria, metrics monitored, key concerns and potential value areas. The tool shows reps the stakeholders important for a solution and their most important high-level outcomes. It also offers suggestions on connecting Solae's solution to each stakeholder's goals. With this a rep can talk to a stakeholder in their language about the outcomes they care about.
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